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Education is focus of major rally

Rob Cunningham

Friday May 05, 2000

Scores of Berkeleyans will travel to Sacramento on Monday for a rally promoting an increase on state spending for public schools. -more-

Calendar of Events & Activities

Friday May 05, 2000

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Teachers union’s tactics are dividing community

Jeffrey M. Hannan

Friday May 05, 2000

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Salvador Dali play is surreal, but not funny

John Angell Grant

Friday May 05, 2000

SAN FRANCISCO – As part of its “Absurdist Season 2000,” San Francisco’s iconoclastic Exit Theater, located in the heart of the Tenderloin, opened the world premiere Tuesday of East Bay playwright/actor Dan Carbone’s energetic but disappointing farce “Salvador Dali Talks to the Animals in the Heaven on Top of Heaven.” -more-

BHS tops Matadors in four

James Wiseman

Friday May 05, 2000

OK, so maybe predicting a win over league punching bag Granada doesn’t exactly make Berkeley High boys volleyball coach Justin Caraway Nostradamus. But after seeing the way his ’Jackets dominated the Matadors in a four-game victory at Donahue Gym on Thursday, the coach’s more presumptuous prophecy of picking up a postseason bid is beginning to look less and less crazy. -more-

Phone switching boxes upset neighbors

Joe Eskenazi

Friday May 05, 2000

“...The window is busted, and the landlord ain’t home/And Butch joined the army, yeah that’s where he’s been/And the jackhammer’s diggin’ up the sidewalks again...” -more-

Developer defends plans for downtown project

Staff

Friday May 05, 2000

Albert Lau’s letter in your May 4th edition misses the point. TransAction proposes to construct a new development, which will contain not only much needed housing for downtown, but also replacement of the existing parking, plus additional parking. We are very aware that the interim disruption is a major inconvenience for downtown visitors, and are working hard to put programs in place to mitigate the inconvenience. The existing structure is incapable of supporting additional weight load. We cannot simply build apartments on top of the existing structure, but rather must build a new structure as a platform for new housing. The city and DBA (Downtown Berkeley Association) were very concerned about the county’s courthouse plan, because that plan did not provide for a re-creation of the existing parking. TransAction’s proposal does provide for the recreation of the existing parking. Thus, but for the temporary, but very real, inconvenience, the downtown and the city will be better off with the new development. -more-

Bats come around as ’Jackets slaughter Monte Vista, 14-2

Staff

Friday May 05, 2000

Berkeley High pitcher Lillia Bermeo allowed just two hits and one earned run in five innings in a fantastic outing against East Bay Athletic League rival Monte Vista on Thursday. But thanks to her own squad’s offense, she couldn’t have pitched a complete game if she wanted to. -more-

Police arrest man for strong-arm robbery

Staff

Friday May 05, 2000

A 22-year-old Oakland man was arrested Monday evening in connection with a strong-arm robbery on Prospect Avenue at Dwight Way. -more-

Thanks to city, police for how they handled crisis

Friday May 05, 2000

Yesterday afternoon (Tuesday), our neighborhood experienced a crisis when one of my neighbors could not find his 6-year-old child who had been playing in the backyard of their home. The incident ended on a happy note when, an hour and a half later, the child returned from a trip to the grocery store with his mother. It turned out to have been a matter of missed communications between the parents. Nonetheless, the response of the police in that hour and a half made me proud to live in a city like Berkeley that can call on the incredible professionalism of its police force in an emergency. -more-

Cal hoops names two assistants

Staff

Friday May 05, 2000

Three weeks after hiring Santa Clara’s Caren Horstmeyer to replace Marianne Stanley as head coach, the Cal women’s basketball program has named two assistant coaches for the 2000-2001 season. -more-

Bayer receives environmental certification

Staff

Friday May 05, 2000

Bayer Corporation’s Berkeley site is the first in North America to meet one of the most rigorous international environmental standards in the world, company officials announced this week. -more-

Berkeley can do its part to help environment

Friday May 05, 2000

As part of Berkeley’s Earth Day events, hundreds of people joined the pledge to take specific steps to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. These pledges now total more than 2 million pounds of carbon dioxide and other gases that will be taken out of our atmosphere. That was a good beginning, but we all have a way to go. Greenhouse gases are causing the earth to warm. As the earth warms unusual climate events happen, as evidenced by massive flooding and devastating mudslides in some parts of the world and severe droughts and raging fires in others. The rain forests are in distress and island nations, existing as they do at sea level, watch in horror as the oceans warm and rise a little more each year. Severe climatic changes represent a real threat to our way of life and to the world’s water and food supplies. -more-

Boy allegedly brandishes pocket knife at school

Staff

Friday May 05, 2000

A 10-year-old boy allegedly brandished a pocket knife at a 9-year-old girl in the hallway of LeConte Elementary School on April 26. The girl’s mother reported the incident on Tuesday of this week. -more-

Features

YMCA sponsors prayer breakfast

Staff

Friday May 05, 2000

The Berkeley-Albany YMCA will host its 60th Annual Community Prayer Breakfast on Tuesday morning at H’s Lordships Restaurant at the Berkeley Marina. -more-